A MiG-23 Coming in for a landing...much like the story...

NATO intelligence units regularly monitor radio activity in East Germany (Back in the days when there was an East Germany). One day a Russian Air Force general flying a MiG-23 was heard carrying on a heated conversation as his aircraft attempted to land in bad weather. The MiG began to have mechanical problems, and the general began getting angry. As he came in lower, the cockpit warning system began to announce, in a taped feminine voice, that various systems were broken, and suggested alternative procedures. The general was really pissed off at this point, and as he crashed, his last words were, "Shut up, you whore, don't try and tell me how to fly an airplane."

From "Dirty Little Secrets" by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi

A MiG-27 landed, much unlike the story....

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